the New Testament
New light on the New Testament
Candida Moss reveals that many New Testament texts, including St Mark’s Gospel, were penned by enslaved scribes who became influential interpreters of Christian scripture
Jesus’s female disciples remain women of mystery
Is there a patron saint of conjecture? Perhaps it is a name known only to Bible scholars, who have rich…
Mary Magdalene: all-singing, all-dancing Goddess of Light
Many of the great faith narratives (the Holy Quran being a notable exception) are clumsy, rough-hewn things; makepiece amalgams of…
The end of the world: an illustrated guide
At the heart of the eschatological ideology of the Islamic State is the belief that when the world ends (and…